‘King Gyanendra should not stay in India’

“But if he would not quit voluntarily then I cannot predict,” he said in an interview with Karan Thapar.

“If he dares to defy the Constituent Assembly’s decision than I cannot predict what will happen?”, he said.

Replying to a question, Prachanda said he did not favour any move by King Gyanendra to take shelter in India.

“Gyanendra should stay in Nepal and he should not be in India or Britain,” he said, adding ‘he should serve the people, he can do his business here to develop this country’.

When asked whether there is a possibility of the King leaving the Palace voluntarily, he said, “there is a 50 per cent chance. But there is also chance that he may play up when there is differences among the political parties.”

“There are some positive some negative things, there are ups and downs in his mind,” he said.

Prachanda said that he did not want ‘to create a scenario for the monarch like facing people’s court, mob justice or the fate like that of French King who was beheaded in 1793’ and added ‘I want dignified exit of the King’.